Dear debate community,
in 2011 we launched VBates as a new way for millions of potential participants
worldwide to experience the wonders of debate.

VBates offered a standardized technology
platform that makes debate available to anyone with even basic internet access.
It represents an elegant, cloud-based video platform for the 21st century that
facilitates debate between youth, classes, schools and even countries.

VBates promotes the opportunity to debate,
breaking down barriers of location, race and class while extending the
boundaries of online-learning.

After four years of supporting, maintaining
and developing this debate tool, unfortunately, we came to a moment where we
need to reevaluate this service in a dawn of revamping of the whole Idebate.org
ecosystem. Therefore, VBates will not be longer available.

We apologize for any inconvenience and hope
to bring back this service in the future as an integrated part of idebate.org
platform.